Gerhard Ertl Lecture & Award

The Ertl Lecture Award was established in 2008 by the three Berlin universities (Humboldt University, Technical University and Free University) and the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society and is awarded once a year. It commemorates former FHI Director Gerhard Ertl's Nobel Prize in Chemistry, which he received in 2007. The prize honours outstanding personalities and researchers in the field of catalysis where Ertl carried out exceptional research for many decades. The prize, sponsored by BASF, includes a one-week research stay at the participating Berlin institutions and a keynote lecture. The winner is typically announced in Spring, the lecture takes place around the December 10th, the anniversary of Ertl's Nobel Prize reception.

Reaching for the stars with density functional theory

• Online Seminar of the NOMAD Laboratory
• Date: Feb 11, 2021
• Time: 11:15 AM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Mandy Bethkenhagen
• École Normale Supérieure de Lyon
• Location: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83988064771?pwd=MUVvaFoxNUwzcEE1UmxFWU5xWGdvUT09
• Room: Meeting ID: 839 8806 4771 I Passcode: NOMAD
• Host: NOMAD Laboratory

Accurately modeling warm dense matter deep inside astrophysical objects is a grand challenge.The associated thermodynamic states are characterized by solid-state densities, temperatures ofthousands of Kelvin, and GPa pressures. The extreme of the conditions can vary gravely dependingon the mass, radius, and composition of the studied object ranging from several GPa in planetarymantles to millions of GPa at the center of stellar interiors. A method that has proven highlysuccessful in describing this peculiar state of matter is density functional theory moleculardynamics (DFT-MD). [more]